The secretive inventor of the laugh track machine

The secretive inventor of the laugh track machine:

jkottke:

Working for CBS and later on his own in the 40s and 50s, sound engineer Charley Douglass perfected the laugh track technique, which was then called sweetening. His secret weapon was the laff box, a machine that you could use like a typewriter to produce the type and sequence of laughter you…

While the laugh track is easily the most insufferable single aspect of a form of entertainment that I find generally insufferable as a whole, I ce...